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Comdex '2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 16, 2000 - Cygron DataScope, a Best of Comdex winner last year in the Best Personal Productivity Software category, was yesterday voted a Best of Comdex Finalist for the Best Enterprise Product category. Last year’s award went to DataScope 3.0, an innovative and powerful data visualization tool. This year it was the turn of DataScope 4.0 a major upgrade to 3.0 that integrates state-of-the-art data mining algorithms with the decision provoking database graphics of version 3.0.

"This year’s Comdex success marks a significant milestone in our mission to make data mining easy to use and affordable for all users" said Roger Wolf, Cygron's CEO. "Cygron has generated a rich data analysis environment that addresses the entire data mining process," continued Mr. Wolf.

"Cygron makes tapping into your corporate data stores easier than ever" said Mr. Bob Kane, Editor, Business Products, CNET when announcing the Comdex awards. [See full text at ZD Net.]

The past year has been an exciting and busy one for Cygron. Following last years Comdex win, Cygron spun-off from its parent Mindmaker and has expanded its corporate capabilities including management team, international operations and gathered extensive customer feedback and delivered the powerful new version 4.0.

Joseph Kiraly, President of Mindmaker commented, "Our vision is for Cygron to become a dominant player in the rapidly growing business intelligence software arena. The Comdex recognition of DataScope in the Best Enterprise Product category following last years award in the Best Personal Productivity Software category is a testimony to the advances made in Cygron.

Since June, Cygron has been working with Intel to showcase the advanced capabilities of Intel's Pentium 4 processor. Said, Cygron CEO Roger Wolf, "Porting DataScope onto the Intel Pentium 4 processor has been a straightforward process, delivering important improvements in performance, and speeds up multiple computations and visualization simultaneously on the desktop".

DataScope 4.0's new modular architecture makes it easy to use as a standalone product or integrates into any third-party application. "To quickly analyze and make critical business decisions requires powerful tools for data mining and visualization that can address both different industries and functions within those industries such as marketing supply chain and finance", said Bob Kane, Editor Business Products, CNET.

Target applications for DataScope include customer relationship management (CRM), customer profiling, predicting customer churn, supply chain analysis, assessment of loan applicants, fraud detection, scoring of decision alternatives, and many more. Corporate and third-party application developers addressing these vertical markets can easily integrate the DataScope engine to their existing applications and allow their customers immediately profit from DataScope's powerful data visualization and data mining capabilities.

DataScope 4.0 is ready to be shipped now.

ABOUT CYGRON

Cygron is a leading developer of business intelligence (BI) solutions for data mining computing. A subsidiary of Mindmaker, Inc., it was spun out April 2000 and seed round financing was oversubscribed. Cygron maintains its headquarters in Singapore and offices in San Jose, CA., and Hungary. Cygron's products are aimed at vertical markets in a range of industries, with particular focus on banking and financial services, insurance, telecoms, utilities, and e-commerce. Applications include customer relationship management (CRM), portfolio analysis, risk appraisal, logistics and others.

ABOUT MINDMAKER

The mission of Mindmaker, Inc is to become the world leader for Intelligent Assistant-centric computing; by developing intelligence-enabled development platforms and a wide range of intelligence, speech and Internet enabled applications. These applications are primarily Personal and Service Provider Assistants, for B2B, B2C and C2C applications. www.mindmaker.com.